Cinephiles passing through Paris often have the Cinémathèque Française on their list of "musts."
But they should also make time for the Forum des Images, a movie library and theater (in the Les Halles mall) known for smartly curated film retrospectives.
A perfect example is "Regarde les hommes danser," a program running Saturday through May 28 and consisting of 60 movies relating to dance.
For only 6 euros per screening (5 euros for students, the unemployed and those under 25 or over 60), visitors can choose from a lineup that offers something for nearly everyone.
There are films revolving entirely around dance, like Michael Powell's seminal "The Red Shoes," with its bold colors, shape-shifting performance sequences and its story of a ballerina's sacrifice.
Somewhat lighter is Jean Renoir's "French Cancan," full of backstage intrigue and the furious high kicks and splits that characterize the 19th-century dance of the title.
Those looking for something more contemporary can catch John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever," Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz" or "Pina," Wim Wenders' 3D tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.
And those who love musicals can see Cyd Charisse luring Gene Kelly into a torrid duet in "Singin' in the Rain" or doing a swoony, moonlit pas de deux with Fred Astaire in Vincente Minnelli's "The Band Wagon."
Happily, Astaire shows up again in "Top Hat," dancing cheek to cheek with Ginger Rogers.
Some of the more inspired selections are not "dance films" in any typical sense.
In Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," a turbulent English teenager's halting hip-hop routines give her a sense of peace (there is a quiet knockout of a family reconciliation scene set to Nas's "Life's a Bitch"). And Claire Denis's masterful "Beau Travail" envisions the training exercises of French Foreign Legion soldiers as a ballet of controlled masculine energy.
Non-Anglophone films have French subtitles, but the most important language in many of these movies is that of bodies in motion.
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